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Now, 37 out of 42 clinics in the state and all clinics in West Texas will have to close their doors as a result of the law. This is not about a handful of women seeking abortions. This law will have a profound effect on Texan women -- and could have serious repercussions for women all over the country. Here, seven rights women in Texas had last week that they don't have anymore ...

Teen moms no longer have the right to get birth control or abortion information without parental consent.

Women who have the federal right -- thanks to Roe v. Wade -- to a safe, legal abortion will now be driven to turn to dangerous abortions performed in Mexico or abortion-inducing pills -- like an unspecified dose of Cytotec, an ulcer medicine -- sold underground or at flea markets, experts note.

The right to a late-term abortion is entirely gone. The law bans abortion completely after 20 weeks, which is exactly when comprehensive fetal testing, such as anatomical sonograms and ultrasounds of the heart, are typically performed. Such scans are critical for uncovering major birth defects, such as anencephaly (severe brain malformations), major heart defects, missing organs and limbs, and other severe birth defects. Families faced with severe fetal disorders—severe brain defects, entirely abnormal gut structures, devastating chromosomal problems—who would otherwise choose not to carry to term will have no choice now.

Victims of rape and incest will no longer be the exceptions to #3. There are no exceptions under the law formerly known as HB2.

Women who have the federal right to a safe, legal abortion will likely start showing up in emergency rooms looking for help with incomplete, self-induced abortion.

The right, or freedom, to go to a clinic near your home -- and not, in say, a bluer state -- has been disappeared as a result of abortion doctors having to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals and all abortions being required to take place in surgical centers.

The right to the abortion pill, mifepristone, formerly known as RU-486.

All of that said, pro-choice activists and Planned Parenthood are gearing up for a fight. Thank goodness, because the women of Texas -- and across the nation -- deserve better.

I am pro choice and I agree with the law (at least what I know of it). I don't think anyone under 18 should be able to get an abortion without parental consent. I Aldo don't think abortions should be legal after 20 weeks.

Speaking toward the very last statement.... NO, THOSE BABIES DESERVE BETTER. And I completely agree with this law. I know that offends some people but this is my opinion and what I believe in. If Those women end up half dead in an ER due to half self inflicted abortion than maybe they should have thought twice.

#3 makes me sad for personal reasons. I've been witness to a baby that should not have survived "survive". Quality of life is important to me, but I guess I shouldn't be the judge. I couldn't be that mother though and watch a baby suffer surgery after surgery with no hope for a real life and or a childhood.

Agree no reason I Canada I believe you can get it up to 16 weeks if totally necessary and if its a life threatening thing they'll do it anytime but generally the cut off is 12 wks. The 16 wk one is 3 days spending a while in the clinic each day.

Quoting bebe_ju-rah:

I am pro choice and I agree with the law (at least what I know of it). I don't think anyone under 18 should be able to get an abortion without parental consent. I Aldo don't think abortions should be legal after 20 weeks.

Wow. Just...wow. That is beyond terrible. Teens can get birth control information? Hello much higher teen pregnancy rates. I will never understand why anyone thinks its ok for parents to be able to deny their daughters an abortion. I had an abortion at 16. While my parents supported that choice fully, if they hadn't, if they'd been allowed to stop me, I'd have had a child I didn't want and couldn't afford, and my life would been ruined, or close to. And that would have affected my life forever. Not my parents, my life. Women can't abort if a life threatening situation occurs in later pregnancy? How is that pro-life? And hell yes women deserve better. If you are against abortion, don't have one, but don't take that choice away from others. All I am really thinking right now though, thank god when I aborted, I didn't need signed consent from my parents, and I had a clinic where I could get a safe and legal abortion. I get cold chills when I think of how easily my life could have been completely destroyed and different, had I not been able to abort.

I will never understand how women struggling already have unprotected sex, refuse to realize its a baby, and have to murder it.

Then turn around get married and can claim that pregnancy a a baby.

Get over the fact that finally someone is realizing that abortions are highly wrong and killing innocent babies because of unresponsible peoples.

Quoting jojo_star:

Wow. Just...wow. That is beyond terrible. Teens can get birth control information? Hello much higher teen pregnancy rates. I will never understand why anyone thinks its ok for parents to be able to deny their daughters an abortion. I had an abortion at 16. While my parents supported that choice fully, if they hadn't, if they'd been allowed to stop me, I'd have had a child I didn't want and couldn't afford, and my life would been ruined, or close to. And that would have affected my life forever. Not my parents, my life. Women can't abort if a life threatening situation occurs in later pregnancy? How is that pro-life? And hell yes women deserve better. If you are against abortion, don't have one, but don't take that choice away from others. All I am really thinking right now though, thank god when I aborted, I didn't need signed consent from my parents, and I had a clinic where I could get a safe and legal abortion. I get cold chills when I think of how easily my life could have been completely destroyed and different, had I not been able to abort.

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